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For arcane reasons dating back to our inaugural 1993 season, each team could keep up to 3 players from the previous season. We changed this for next year - if there is a next year. (Since the LoAC has several graduate students as owners, we have a potentially high owner turnover.) Due to the strike and general scheduling conflicts, we did not hold our draft until Saturday, May 13 - 2 1/2 weeks after opening day. It took us about eight hours, but when the dust had cleared, my team, the Hot Rawds, looked like this:
BATTERS C Ron Karkovice ChW .10 C Randy Knorr Tor .10 1B Mo Vaughn Bos 1.85 3B Robin Ventura ChW 1.15 CI Paul Sorrento Cle 1.15 2B Chuck Knoblauch Min 1.05 (Kept from 1994) SS Benji Gil Tex .40 MI Pat Kelly NYY .35 OF Chad Curtis Det .90 OF David Hulse Mil .05 OF Derrick May Mil .40 OF Chris Sabo ChW .30 OF Bernie Williams NYY .90 DH Tom Goodwin KC .05 PITCHERS SP Mark Clark Cle .45 SP Sid Fernandez Bal .35 SP Charles Nagy Cle 1.05 SP Arthur Rhodes Bal .05 SP Kevin Tapani Min .60 RP Bobby Ayala Sea .90 (Kept from 1994) RP Stan Belinda Bos .05 RP Armando Benitez Bal .50 RP Ken Ryan Bos .50 (Kept from 1994) RESERVES C Sandy Alomar, Jr. Cle 3B Howard Battle Tor 3B Jeff Cirillo Mil SS Derek Jeter NYY OF Garrett Anderson Cal OF Jose Malave Bos SP Jose Lima Det SP Frank Rodriguez Bos RP Danny Cox Tor RP Ron Villone SeaYes, the pitching looked weak even before the season started. Clearly, I had a lot of work to do, so I set to it:
Weekly StandingsMay 16: 6th place. Good hitting, but a 5.31 overall ERA.May 23: 6th place. Team ERA expands to 5.58. May 30: 6th place. ERA stays roughly the same, at 5.62. Key additions: Jon Nunnally and Tim Wakefield. I also trade Sid Fernandez for Kevin Gross, and replace injured Pat Kelly with Derek Jeter. June 6: 6th place. ERA finally falls, to 4.85. Key addition: Julian Tavarez. June 13: 4th place. Key addition: Chad Ogea. June 20: 5th place. Key additions: Salomon Torres (replacing Gross) and Manny Alexander. June 27: 4th place. Trade: Paul Sorrento for Jeff Montgomery; strangely, this was the best deal I could get for Sorrento. Key addition: Craig Paquette. July 4: 3rd place. A great offensive week. Key addition: Sandy Alomar Jr., finally off the DL. Key loss: Ken Ryan. Suddenly the Montgomery trade looks pretty good! July 11: 3rd place. July 18: 3rd place. Key addition: Jeff Cirillo (now that I have somewhere to put him). July 25: 1st place (tie). Suddenly I have the second-best pitching in the league! August 1: 2nd place (tie). Kevin Tapani got traded to the Dodgers, so I waive him. (Unfortunately, one of my main competition acquired both Ken Hill and Bobby Bonilla, so first place is starting to look unattainable.) August 8: 3rd place. My offense is starting to flag, and I had an absolutely awful pitching week. (Serves me right for picking up Mike Maddux and Scott Anderson the week before.) Key additions: Brad Radke and Sean Bergman. I also activate the healthy Pat Kelly, now that Manny Alexander's playing time has vanished. August 15: 3rd place. Key additions: Johnny Damon and Rick Krivda. August 22: 3rd place. And that was where it stood for the rest of the season. I narrowly fended off an effort by the fourth-place team to push past me, which was doubly tough since that fourth place team had Randy Johnson, who pitched so well in the one game California/Seattle playoff to decide the winner of the AL West that year. When the dust had settled, the final standings looked as follows:
PLACE TEAM SCORE
1 Cracklin' Macl 83.0
2 Sweet Tomcats 73.0
3 Hot Rawds 68.0
4 Oley Cows 67.0
5 Craven's Cowar 53.0
6 Street Pizzas 48.0
7 Rut and Lut's 46.5
8 Harvey Wannaba 43.0
9 Mad Bombers 34.5
10 Weazez 34.0
TEAM AVG AB H R HR RBI SB
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Harvey Wannaba 0.281 5215 1466 783 145 693 80
Cracklin' Macl 0.289 6172 1783 1003 271 1088 94
Hot Rawds 0.274 5925 1626 928 205 845 191
Weazez 0.259 4252 1100 602 106 501 119
Street Pizzas 0.271 5897 1601 889 178 785 147
Sweet Tomcats 0.274 5404 1479 934 193 792 182
Mad Bombers 0.288 5188 1495 781 174 838 46
Craven's Cowar 0.270 5994 1620 817 156 799 121
Oley Cows 0.285 6092 1739 925 234 922 74
Rut and Lut's 0.261 5570 1455 816 243 838 63
TEAM AVG R HR RBI SB TOT
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Harvey Wannaba 7.0 3.0 2.0 2.0 4.0 18.0
Cracklin' Macl 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 5.0 45.0
Hot Rawds 6.0 8.0 7.0 8.0 10.0 39.0
Weazez 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 6.0 10.0
Street Pizzas 4.0 6.0 5.0 3.0 8.0 26.0
Sweet Tomcats 5.0 9.0 6.0 4.0 9.0 33.0
Mad Bombers 9.0 2.0 4.0 6.5 1.0 22.5
Craven's Cowar 3.0 5.0 3.0 5.0 7.0 23.0
Oley Cows 8.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 3.0 35.0
Rut and Lut's 2.0 4.0 9.0 6.5 2.0 23.5
TEAM ERA W IP ER H BB WHIP*9 SO SV
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Harvey Wannaba 4.8309 78 1183.0 635 1179 464 12.500 809 38
Cracklin' Macl 4.3970 80 1295.2 633 1355 473 12.698 956 90
Hot Rawds 4.5686 85 1180.0 599 1222 467 12.882 833 55
Weazez 4.2346 36 531.1 250 522 230 12.738 381 40
Street Pizzas 4.6367 46 790.0 407 858 271 12.862 567 97
Sweet Tomcats 3.9620 87 1349.1 594 1358 494 12.353 836 24
Mad Bombers 4.5284 47 844.2 425 872 357 13.095 537 1
Craven's Cowar 4.3544 74 1287.2 623 1246 584 12.791 967 14
Oley Cows 4.3784 80 1245.2 606 1251 480 12.507 939 4
Rut and Lut's 4.6770 80 1364.1 709 1425 528 12.883 897 37
TEAM ERA W WHIP SO SV TOT
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Harvey Wannaba 1.0 5.0 9.0 4.0 6.0 25.0
Cracklin' Macl 6.0 7.0 7.0 9.0 9.0 38.0
Hot Rawds 4.0 9.0 3.0 5.0 8.0 29.0
Weazez 9.0 1.0 6.0 1.0 7.0 24.0
Street Pizzas 3.0 2.0 4.0 3.0 10.0 22.0
Sweet Tomcats 10.0 10.0 10.0 6.0 4.0 40.0
Mad Bombers 5.0 3.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 12.0
Craven's Cowar 8.0 4.0 5.0 10.0 3.0 30.0
Oley Cows 7.0 7.0 8.0 8.0 2.0 32.0
Rut and Lut's 2.0 7.0 2.0 7.0 5.0 23.0
As you can see, my hitting was quite good, but I really had to struggle to put together a half-decent pitching staff.For a while I was tracking each of my players closely enough to pick a "player of the week" on my team each week. I did so for much of the 95 season, but finally started losing interest (or was it time?) toward the end of the year. Here are the players I did pick, however:
Players of the WeekMay 16: Mo Vaughn, 15-for-62 (.242), 8 HR, 14 R, 19 RBI, 4 SBMay 23: Mo Vaughn, 10-for-23 (.435), 3 HR, 7 R, 8 RBI, 2 SB May 23: Tom Goodwin, 8-for-19 (.421), 6 R, 6 SB (!) June 6: Tim Wakefield, 17.1 IP, 2 W, 0.52 ERA, 5.71 WHIP, 9 K June 13: Charles Nagy, 15 IP, 1 W, 1.80 ERA, 7.20 WHIP, 15 K June 20: Chad Curtis, 10-for-30 (.333), 2 HR, 5 R, 9 RBI, 2 SB June 27: Chad Ogea, 14.2 IP, 2 W, 0.61 ERA, 7.36 WHIP, 8 K July 4: Mo Vaughn, 10-for-28 (.357), 5 HR, 9 R, 10 RBI, 1 SB July 11: Tim Wakefield, 17 IP, 2 W, 1.59 ERA, 10.59 WHIP, 7 K July 18: Chad Curtis, 6-for-20 (.300), 1 HR, 5 R, 2 RBI, 3 SB July 25: Tim Wakefield, 14.2 IP, 2 W, 1.66 ERA, 7.98 WHIP, 13 K August 1: Ron Karkovice, 5-for-17 (.294), 2 HR, 6 R, 5 RBI August 8: Mo Vaughn, 14-for-31 (.452), 3 HR, 7 R, 13 RBI August 15: Tim Wakefield, 17.1 IP, 2 W, 1.56 ERA, 7.29 WHIP, 8 K August 22: Tom Goodwin, 9-for-31 (.290), 7 R, 3 RBI, 2 HR, 3 SB
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